Few Latinos Signing Up For California Health Insurance Exchanges

Tracy Seipel
San Jose Mercury News

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GILROY -- It's not that Adan Lopez hasn't heard about the new federal health care law.

By now, the 32-year-old self-employed, uninsured Gilroy resident is familiar with Covered California, the state's health insurance exchange, through Spanish-language television and radio -- it even pops up on Internet sites he visits.

He just hasn't gotten around to signing up for it. And he's hardly alone.